NEW YORK (JTA) — When the school year ended two months ago, Rabbi Bini Krauss allowed himself to breathe a sigh of relief.
His Modern Orthodox day school, SAR Academy, had been perhaps the first Jewish school in the country to close due to COVID...
Ori Itzchaki is an aspiring journalist. He has interviewed “Wonder Woman” Gal Gadot and Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo for the magazine of Shavvim, an Israeli organization for people with disabilities.
For now, however, journalism doesn’t pay...
(JTA) — The Florida shock radio host and former Newsmax anchor who died of COVID-19 after spending months telling his followers not to get the vaccine was a Jewish man from Queens.
The Aug. 4 death of Dick Farrel, who was 65, has made global headlines...
ALEX KRUTCHIK, CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
• Published August 8, 2021
Eighty-five percent of Jewish Americans are accepting of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. The study surveyed several religious groups and subgroups, such as Black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics,...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published August 3, 2021
How long do antibodies last, which patients get hit the hardest, how does the vaccine handle the Delta variant – the latest scientific findings from Israel.
A three-way organ swap took place this week between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in which family members of three people requiring a transplant donated their kidneys in exchange for kidneys for ailing loved ones.
It was the first time an organ...
With rising Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant and concerns about how long the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine remains effective — and how effective it is against Delta – the Israeli government decided on July 29 to make a booster shot available to...
I am not an expert on dementia, and I don’t want to be.
My expertise is in policy and social justice activism. I once had an office in the state Capitol. But now, my family and I are getting a crash course in frontotemporal dementia, a rare...
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
As public health experts fret over a stalling COVID-19 vaccine campaign in the U.S., a new survey suggests they don’t have to worry about American Jews.
Jews have the...
Kristen Lucken, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Brandeis University
• Published July 28, 2021
This article originally appeared at The Conversation. Reposted with permission.
Over a year of dealing with COVID-19 has left a lasting imprint on our daily lives. The pandemic disrupted usual work routines, with the majority of Americans having...
This article originally appeared on Kveller.
With 46% of Americans fully vaccinated, trials for children under 12 in progress and a population eager to put the last year and a half in the rearview mirror, it’s no surprise that the cultural timeline...
